![]() The part of public law to which this constitution had application was municipal or state law: the ius civitatis. The first form of lawful constitution was the constitution pertaining to the rights of individuals within the state. Each of these constitutions had application to one or other of what he saw as the three parts of public law. Kant then identified three forms of lawful constitution. This was that whenever men were able to influence one another (and hence able to do or threaten injury to one another), it was required that they should subject themselves to some kind of lawful constitution. ![]() In a footnote to the paragraph introducing discussion of the definitive articles in the Second Section of Perpetual Peace, Kant explained that the articles were based in a governing postulate or assumption. The three definitive articles of a perpetual peace between states described the forms of lawful constitution whose adoption by men and states Kant thought of as the essential precondition for the realization of a lasting international peace based in the rule of law. ![]()
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